The existence of this would bring us into alignment with other societies, which usually have some document that describes the principles that the society stands for, and has some mechanism for ensuring that those who choose to represent themselves as part of that society abides by those principles.
I think this rests on some equivocation of the meaning of ‘societies’. It’s true for associations but not for movements, and the EA movement is the latter, so I don’t see this helping—unless we pushed for all EAs to become members of an association like GWWC.
In general I think that most movements simply fail at this issue. A few with strong central moral leadership have pulled it off—e.g. the neoreactionaries seem to have successfully ejected an errant member from the movement—but larger, more egalitarian movements like enviromentalism simply have to suffer from association with undesirables.
I think this rests on some equivocation of the meaning of ‘societies’. It’s true for associations but not for movements, and the EA movement is the latter, so I don’t see this helping—unless we pushed for all EAs to become members of an association like GWWC.
In general I think that most movements simply fail at this issue. A few with strong central moral leadership have pulled it off—e.g. the neoreactionaries seem to have successfully ejected an errant member from the movement—but larger, more egalitarian movements like enviromentalism simply have to suffer from association with undesirables.